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NORWAY
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English
English : variant spelling of Ruston.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in eastern Norway named from rust ‘slope with trees’, ‘hill’, ‘ridge’.
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Norwegian
Norwegian : habitational name from a farm in western Norway, named from Old Norse fiskr ‘fish’ + vin ‘meadow’.Danish : metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, from Old Norse fiskr ‘fish’.English : variant of Fisk.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Westby, for example in Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and West Yorkshire, from Old Norse vestr ‘west’ + býr ‘settlement’.Norwegian : habitational name from any of twenty or more farmsteads, mainly in southeastern Norway, named in Old Norse as Vestbýr, a compound Old Norse vestr ‘west’ + býr ‘settlement’. Compare 1.Swedish : habitational or ornamental name of the same etymology as 2 above.
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Norwegian (Sørby)
Norwegian (Sørby) : habitational name from any of fifteen or more farmsteads in southeastern Norway, most of them variants of Sørbø (see Sorbo), with Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’ as the final element. In some cases the first element may be sør ‘south’.English : variant of Sowerby.
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English (Sussex)
English (Sussex) : topographic name for someone who lived by a holt, a small wood, + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.North German (also Hölter) : habitational name from places called Holter or Hölter.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt).
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English, Scottish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch
English, Scottish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch : from the Scandinavian personal name Magnus. This was borne by Magnus the Good (died 1047), king of Norway, who was named for the Emperor Charlemagne, Latin Carolus Magnus ‘Charles the Great’. The name spread from Norway to the eastern Scandinavian royal houses, and became popular all over Scandinavia and thence in the English Danelaw.
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Norwegian
Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, named with Old Norse lón ‘calm, deep pool (in a river)’.English : variant of Lane.Muslim : unexplained.
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Danish
Danish : habitational name from any of several places called Órum, named as a compound of ór ‘gravel beach’ + hem ‘dwelling’. This name is also found in Norway, of Danish origin.English : variant of Orme 1.
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English
English : from a short form of the personal names Giles, Julian, or William. In theory the name would have a soft initial when derived from the first two of these, and a hard one when from William or from the other possibilities discussed in 2–4 below. However, there has been much confusion over the centuries.Northern English : topographic name for someone who lived by a ravine or deep glen, Middle English gil(l), Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.Scottish and Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille (Scottish), Mac Giolla (Irish), patronymics from an occupational name for a servant or a short form of the various personal names formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint. See McGill. The Old Norse personal name Gilli is probably of this origin, and may lie behind some examples of the name in northern England.Scottish and Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac An Ghoill (see Gall 1).Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads in western Norway named Gil, from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’.Dutch : cognate of Giles.Jewish (Israeli) : ornamental name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’.German : from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegidius (see Gilger).Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name, probably from Panjabi gil ‘moisture’, also meaning ‘prosperity’. There is a Jat tribe that bears this name; the Ramgarhia Sikhs also have a clan called Gill.
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English
English : variant spelling of Ling 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in western Norway named with lyng ‘heather’, either on its own, or with the addition of vin ‘meadow’.Dutch (de Linge) and North German : habitational name from a place named with Old Low German linge ‘strip of land or water’, or possibly with the river name Linge (this river flows through the Betuwe). See also Lingen.Possibly French, from a metonymic occupational name from linge ‘linen goods’, but there is no evidence of surname in North America.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Hallam.Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway, from either the dative plural of Old Norse hǫll ‘slope’ or Old Norse Hallheimr, a compound of hallr ‘slope’ + heimr ‘farmstead’.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' Fortinbras, Prince of Norway.
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English
English : probably a variant of Grein, Grain, a topographic name for someone who lived by an inlet or at the fork of a river, Middle English greine, grayne.Altered spelling of German Grein.Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse grǫnvin, a compound of grǫn ‘spruce’ + vin ‘meadow’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Fosse.Danish : from fos, vos ‘fox’; a nickname for a sly or cunning person or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.Altered spelling of German Voss or the Dutch cognate Vos.
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English, Dutch, and German
English, Dutch, and German : occupational name for a retail trader, Middle English manger, monger, Middle Dutch manger, menger, Middle High German mangære, mengære (from Late Latin mango ‘salesman’, with the addition of the Germanic agent suffix).Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in southwestern Norway named as Mángr in Old Norse, perhaps from már ‘sea gull’ + angr ‘fjord’.
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English, Scottish, Dutch, German, and Swedish
English, Scottish, Dutch, German, and Swedish : from the personal name Sander, a reduced form of Alexander.German : topographic name for someone who lived on sandy soil, from Sand 1 + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.Norwegian : habitational name from any of seven farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway, from the indefinite plural form of Old Norse sandr ‘sand’, ‘sandy plain’, ‘beach’.
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English
English : habitational name from Dowland in Devon, named from Old English dūfe ‘dove’ + feld ‘open country’ + land ‘estate’.Irish : of uncertain derivation, possibly a variant of Dowlin or Dolan.Altered spelling of Norwegian Dovland, a habitational name from a farm on the south coast of Norway, so named from dove ‘shaking bog’ + land ‘land’.
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English, Irish (Ulster), Scottish, and Dutch
English, Irish (Ulster), Scottish, and Dutch : name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves norðmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onwards, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original Germanic name.French : regional name for someone from Normandy.Dutch : ethnic name for a Norwegian.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Nordman.Jewish : Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic name.Swedish : from norr ‘north’ + man ‘man’.Albert Andriessen Bradt, a settler in Rensselaerswijck on the upper Hudson River in NY, was originally from Norway and was known as de Norrman (‘the Norwegian’). The waterway south of Albany which powered his mills became known as the Normanskill (‘the Norman’s Waterway’), by which name it is still known today.
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English
English : variant of Hill 1.North German : from the personal name Hille, a pet form of Hildebrand.Dutch : from the place name ten Hulle, from hulle ‘hill’, found in many parts of the Netherlands.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, mostly on islands, named Hille, from Old Norse hilla ‘terrace’, ‘ledge’.
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places in South Yorkshire named with Old English hÅh ‘hill spur’ + land ‘(cultivated) land’.English : variant of Holland 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, notably in southwestern Norway, named in Old Norse as Heyland, from hey ‘hay’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.
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The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
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A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck.
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A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
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Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
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Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.
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The brown, or Norway, rat.
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The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
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A native of Norway.
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A rare metallic element, of doubtful identification, said to occur in the copper-nickel of Norway.
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The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.
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Dried cod, exported from Norway.
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A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
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A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.
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A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
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A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.
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Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
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A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
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That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.